Thank you NF, Admin & Co

[NickFitz]

Fair enough for the IT illiterate/disinterested but why on Earth is anyone on CUK still using IE6??

The most likely scenario is that they are with a client that has intranet applications that only work on IE6 (dependency on ActiveX, reliance on IE6 rendering bugs, all that kind of thing). Said organisations can't just get rid of IE6, and don't want the expense of supporting another browser as well, so they stay in the Stone Age.

I often wonder how far these companies have got with planning for the day when MS refuse to support IE6 anymore. I know for a fact that, last year, the IE Team's Platform Architect and former Group Program Manager refused point-blank to extend IE6's life beyond 2010 (13 July 2010 should have been the cutoff point, to be precise). However, MS had a number of large corporate and government customers that had kept their heads in the sand for too long, and were pleading with them to extend it to 2014, when XP support will end. The stand-off was eventually resolved by creating a new and more desirable position for that chap within Microsoft, which happened to involve moving him to a different division, and the chap who stepped up to replace him then agreed to the 2014 extension. I wouldn't expect it to happen again come 2013, though: those people should be planning to end their reliance on IE6 by 8 April 2014, or they'll be on their own...

[nodric]

New Problems after this weekend

On IE6 I am seeing quotes randomly not displaying, and instead large white spaces in their place.

I also no longer see the Notifications or Settings menu items unless I hover over them with the mouse cursor.